I've made lots of mistakes. The hard part was realizing not just the fact, but the extent. Sure, I've been hurt by others, but there also are quite many things I've just done to myself. It's time to learn on mistakes. Here's my recent life rule: Make time work in your favor. Its strongest power is that it's vague, it can be universal. On the other hand, the biggest…
On October 17, a blog post was published on WordPress.org, attributed vaguely to "WordPress.org", titled " WP Engine Promotions ." Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, Fact check: WP Engine's lawsuit first names Automattic , and only then Mullenweg. "Mullenweg also controls and serves as the CEO and President of Automattic," says…
Nothing felt right. The more I've changed, the more I hated what I was turning into, even though it was out of my control. One day, a seemingly minor event broke something in me. I suddenly understood how much gender dysphoria was eating me alive. All I knew was that I had to act. I needed a new nickname to start social changes. Being a weeb, I ended up with selfisekai, and quickly got a new…
Here's the thing: Google does not test whether Chromium still works any further than on the tip of their nose. If they can build it to ship Google Chrome, the rest doesn't matter. This is not what a healthy free software project with such an impact should work like. And yet, well, nothing has changed. If you struggle to run Chromium, you will ultimately struggle to use the…
I, lauren n. liberda, editor-in-chief of liberda.nl, have been raided at the place of my long-term residence on 2024-02-15 after 07:00 (morning) by the Dutch police, in coordination with Polish prosecutors. My electronic devices have been seized. Out of necessary caution, please distrust the SSH keys with following fingerprints, previously found on https://keys.selfisekai.rocks/ssh…
Little background, because it's a big legal mess. In 2015, when Law and Justice (PiS) took over, having parliament majorities on their own (with 37.5% votes) and their President, they went on a run through institutions, including courts. The judges-members of the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS), are getting chosen by the Sejm (lower parliament house), instead of judges, as it was…
The dominance of Chromium, and Google's dominance over the project, started being a more widely discussed issue. Not without reasons: Google increasingly prioritizes their own interests over the users'. Take a look at the Web Topics API , rolled out to some portion of stable users since Chromium 115, as a very good example (bold mine). Topics is a proposal in the Privacy Sandbox designed…
I've been writing a different blog post recently. I wanted to talk a bit about a project I'm making. I started it to make my work as a package maintainer easier, and so, I wrote a bit about why I think this matters. Dynamic linking. If you install Chromium, Firefox, and ffmpeg on a typical Linux distribution, all of them will use the same, shared libwebp to show a webp picture. You only…
I looked at a discussion on blink-dev Google Group and saw the message : Perhaps it is a good thing for user choice to have a browser that is fully open to any use and allows anonymous user actions. The result of such open-ness is that an entire series of services that need to trust the client (used in the oauth sense of the word) are not available to web apps. […] I have recently worked on a fork…
In the standards field, Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish is a strategy for gaining users of an open standard, and breaking it to lock them in. This does not exactly match Android, as it is a software project, rather than a standard. But it resonates with its story of making the open source effectively unusable without proprietary extensions. Warning: if I wasn't enough of a techie to do some…